A tool to find duplicate copies in a buildhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2012/01/21/a-tool-to-find-duplicate-copies-in-a-build.aspxAs part of our builds, quite a few projects copy files to the binaries directory or other locations.&#160; These can be anything from image files to test scripts.&#160; To have our builds complete more quickly, we use the multi-process option ( /maxcpucounten-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)re: A tool to find duplicate copies in a buildhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2012/01/21/a-tool-to-find-duplicate-copies-in-a-build.aspx#10261088Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:02:53 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10261088Buck Hodges<p>Greg, I think VS would have to rely on msbuild for this. &nbsp;There are often conditionals and variables involved, and thus it&#39;s not possible in general to evaluate without msbuild. &nbsp;It would be good for msbuild to detect it and warn.</p>
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<div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10261088" width="1" height="1">re: A tool to find duplicate copies in a buildhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2012/01/21/a-tool-to-find-duplicate-copies-in-a-build.aspx#10260842Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:46:35 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10260842Greg<p>Shouldn&#39;t the duplicate file copy be detected when VS reviews the project settings for your solution well before you to a TFS build? &nbsp;Custom build steps/scripts are excluded from this.</p>
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